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COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING: DRAFT POLICIES OUT FOR COMMENT
- 04 November 2024
- Fisheries & Aquaculture
- SA Legal Academy
The Department of Forestry, Fisheries & the Environment has gazetted two draft fisheries sector policies for comment by 4 December 2024. One deals with the transfer of commercial fishing rights and should be read with the 2021 general policy on commercial fishing rights allocation, along with related species-specific policies. The other focuses on the allocation and management of rights to operate a fish processing plant.
Backdated to 1 November 2024, the proposed new policies were gazetted three days later, reducing the public commentary period.
Once finalised, the draft policy on transferring commercial fishing rights:
- will repeal one in place since 2009, among other things with the aim of:
- curbing practices undermining transformation, including ‘fronting’, and
- addressing ‘the undue concentration of rights … (in) the hands of one entity’.
The draft policy on allocating and managing fish processing plant operating rights is underpinned by the following imperatives:
- transformation and equitable access
- food security
- poverty alleviation and socio-economic development
- the ecologically sustainable use of marine living resources
- ensuring minimal marine pollution, and
- meeting related international obligations.
With that in mind, among other things it deals with:
- the factors to be considered when evaluating a fish processing rights application
- the process of granting these rights, their duration and transfer
- environmental authorisation
- health and safety authorisation
- environmental and land use planning obligations, and
- appeals.
Please click the links below for more information:
- draft policy on the transfer of commercial fishing rights
- draft policy on the allocation and management of rights to operate a fish processing plant
- Government Gazette notice
- 2021 policy
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy Watch
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